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10/10/2025

Orlando readers, don't miss Daniel Rivero, author of JUST FREEDOM, at the Writer's Block Bookstore on Oct. 17 at 6:00pm. JUST FREEDOM details the advocacy and action that led to the 2018 vote to amend the state constitution and restore voting rights to 1.4 million people, as well as the obstacles that have stalled the amendment from becoming fully realized to this day. Daniel Rivero will be in conversation with Desmond Meade, activist and Executive Director of the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition.

For more details on this and other events, and to find an event near you, please click the link to our Author Events Calendar in our bio.

10/09/2025

If you're attending the Modernist Studies Association annual conference in Boston, please come stop by our booth where you can browse our recent and bestselling titles in literary studies, including GUILT AND FINNEGANS WAKE by Talia Abu, THE USUAL STAR AND THE MOMENT: STORIES by H. D., edited by Lara Vetter, and TEACHING JAMES JOYCE IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY, edited by Barry Devine and Ellen Scheible.

You can also browse our and take advantage of our conference discount online at bit.ly/31MSA25.

10/08/2025

AN INTRODUCTION TO MIDDLE ENGLISH LYRICS by William A. Quinn provides an overview of the literary genre of Middle English lyrics, anonymous short poems that were composed between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries, identifying common features and trends over time and including modern translations of select examples.

“William Quinn is a poet and a scholar, and here he reaches deep into both satchels to deliver an edition of selected medieval English lyrics combining learning and art—an altogether nonpareil achi…

10/07/2025

If you’re in Miami, don’t miss Daniel Rivero at Books & Books this Thursday, Oct. 9 at 7:00pm. Rivero will discuss his new book, JUST FREEDOM, which examines the battle to expand voting rights in Florida. This book details the advocacy and action that led to the passage of Florida’s Amendment 4, which promised to restore voting rights to people with past felony convictions, and shows what went wrong in the years after the amendment’s passing. A journalist who has covered this story for many years, Rivero peels back the layers to reveal the motives that supported and opposed this human rights initiative. Daniel Rivero will be in conversation with Ana Sofia Pelaez.

For more information on this and other events, please click here to access our Author Events Calendar: https://upf.com/calendar.asp

10/06/2025

In JUST FREEDOM, Daniel Rivero tells the story of the fight to restore voting rights to people with past felony convictions in Florida. This book details the advocacy and action that helped 1.4 million people gain the right to vote—and the obstacles still preventing them from doing so. JUST FREEDOM will raise questions and provoke conversations about the lasting hold of Jim Crow–era policies, the power of money, and the nature of the American criminal justice system.

Meet the author at an upcoming event near you: October 8, 7:00 p.m., The Dancing Elephant, Lake Worth. October 9, 7:00 p.m., Books & Books, Coral Gables. Daniel Rivero will be in conversation w…

10/03/2025

Don’t forget to register for our Fall 2025 Publishing Symposium!

If you’re an author who is considering publishing a book and would like to learn more about the publishing process, or a student interested in learning about potential publishing careers, please join us for this free virtual event on October 23rd, starting at 1pm EST. It is open to anyone who would like to learn more about book publishing.

The symposium will consist of three sessions: Understanding Editors, which will introduce the different kinds of editors authors may work with when publishing a book; Careers in Publishing, which will introduce students to different publishing career paths; and the Publishing Careers Meetup, which will serve as a networking event for students who are interested in connecting with publishing professionals from different areas of scholarly publishing.

To register for one or more of the sessions, please register at upress.ufl.edu.

09/26/2025

Our September e-newsletter features our book recommendations for Hispanic Heritage Month, new staff announcement, fall exhibit schedule, tons of author events, and an invitation to attend our Fall 2025 Publishing Symposium. Click here to check it out: https://conta.cc/4msLPAF

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09/25/2025

We're attending the ASALH: Association for the Study of African American Life and History annual meeting in Atlanta, GA. If you're at the conference please stop by our booth where you can browse our newest and bestselling books in African American studies.

You can also take advantage of our conference discount online at https://bit.ly/31ASALH25.

09/22/2025

We are proud to showcase our new, updated logos for the University Press of Florida and UF Press. These logos were designed by Mindy Hill, who joined the Press this year as our book designer, and we are thrilled with how they reflect our history and set the stage for the next era of our publishing program.

The University Press of Florida logo, which features a sun rising over an open book, has been a beloved symbol of our publishing program for many years. For our 80th anniversary, we’ve streamlined and modernized this symbol as we look to the future. This logo represents our enduring commitment to publishing works that illuminate paths forward in a variety of academic disciplines and shed light on local and global issues, all from our vantage point as the only university press in the Sunshine State.

UF Press, which was reestablished in 2015 and celebrates its 10th anniversary this year, also has a refreshed logo design. This logo features UF’s iconic Century Tower and the orange and blue colors of the school.

Keep an eye out for our new logos as you browse our titles online and visit us at fall conferences. And for more Press news, click the link to read our Fall 2025 Newsletter: https://floridapress.blog/f25newsletter/

09/19/2025

This , we are proud to highlight a collection of our publications including the new book MODERN ART IN 1940s CUBA; Dedé Mirabal's memoir of the Mirabal sisters, Dominican revolutionaries who opposed dictator Rafael Trujillo, ALIVE IN THEIR GARDEN; cookbooks including Ana Quincoces's MODERN CUBAN; an anthology of contemporary Latinx voices, HOME IN FLORIDA; and César Brioso's HAVANA HARDBALL, which tells the story of Jackie Robinson's training in Cuba before he made history breaking the color barrier in the US.

Use discount code 31HHM25 for discount prices through October 15. Browse books at the link below.

Use code 31HHM25 for discount prices through October 15. Havana Hardball: Spring Training, Jackie Robinson, and the Cuban LeagueCésar BriosoRelive the tumultuous preseason before Robinson broke the…

09/18/2025

Q***R GENEALOGIES IN DOMINICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE by Maja Horn examines the evolution of q***r Dominican literary and cultural production from the 1950s to the present, tracing how same-sex desire and gender nonconformity have been negotiated both tacitly and overtly across this time period.

“Provides a nuanced and comprehensive analysis of the evolution of LGBTQ+ identity and politics in the Dominican Republic.”—Danny Méndez, author of Narratives of Migration and Displacement in Domin…

09/17/2025

Through an analysis of twenty-first-century films created in Latin America, FATHERS, MASCULINITY, AND AUTHORITARIANISM IN LATIN AMERICAN CINEMA by Irina Dzero makes the case that contemporary filmmakers are using the figure of the father as a metaphor for political leadership and that their work reflects a growing rejection of predatory and coercive authority in the region.

“Excellent, timely, and fascinating. Dzero adeptly places films into dialogue with novels, television series, and paintings to enumerate and explain different tropes of authoritarian masculinity.”—…